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Permanent Record av Edward Snowden
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Permanent Record (utgåvan 2019)

av Edward Snowden (Författare)

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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online??a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.… (mer)

Medlem:OldProf67
Titel:Permanent Record
Författare:Edward Snowden (Författare)
Info:Metropolitan Books (2019), Edition: 1st Edition, 352 pages
Samlingar:Intel
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Taggar:Traitor

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Permanent Record av Edward Snowden (Author)

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    Storebror ser dig : Edward Snowden och den globala övervakningsstaten av Glenn Greenwald (Anonym användare)
    Anonym användare: Das ursprüngliche Buch über die Snowden-Enthüllungen.
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    Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State av Barton Gellman (Anonym användare)
    Anonym användare: Another person's point of view while the stories were starting to come together and being written. Barton does say he was contacted before Glenn but Ed does say Glenn was contacted before Barton.
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The writing style is engrossing and emotional, the story is important, and I found that I could relate to a lot of Snowden's thoughts and experiences growing up. I highly recommend it whether you've been following his story since 2013 or whether you barely know anything about him. ( )
  AdioRadley | Jan 21, 2024 |
I have worked in and around the IT industry for over 15 years and grew up, similarly to Snowden, enamored with technology. I got my first PC, a XT clone, at around age 10 and started running my own BBS shortly after. I remember those first days of the internet, my first website, and the days before social media. None of what he exposed in 2013 really surprised me or people like me - at least not from a technological perspective. It was always an assumption that this stuff could happen. Taking over cameras, stepping through backdoors in routers, listening in on microphones, browsing private social media pages. Of course that's possible. What we didn't fully appreciate was the scope. The story Edward Snowden has to tell is an important one... and the book covers his life and the events surrounding his whistleblowing with great detail and emotion. It not only explains what he did, but he tries to tell the story of why he did it. It's a wonderfully crafted book that should be standard reading for any technologist.

That the US government is collecting data on such an enormous scale, passively, and storing it in perpetuity... that should frighten everyone, and it's enough to start making you paranoid of the things you do online. Of course, I'm just a middle aged white guy in Canada who lives a fairly standard, boring life. I'm not a juicy surveillance target. Or am I?

Hello?

...are you reading this?

Hello? ( )
  nakedspine | Nov 16, 2023 |
I thought I knew the scale of the surveillance that the NSA (the National Security Agency, a premier American intelligence agency) was conducting on its citizens (and through various alliances, any Web traffic that passed through its borders) - but to read about it in its full and chilling detail is astounding.
To give a brief background, Edward Snowden is famous (or depending upon your views on whistleblowers, infamous) for leaking, in explicit detail, how the US had built a massive surveillance program to spy on its own citizens, in the guise of 'protecting the country from terrorists'. To put it simply, anyone who was deemed even slightly suspicious had a 'marker' placed upon them (for example, a professor who applied for tenure in a university in Iran). This marker meant that everything - where you eat, where you go, who you meet with - was tracked. This was not even the most chilling fact - the cherry on the cake was the fact that everything that was tracked was permanently stored, and the aforementioned marker could be placed even if the person 'could be suspected in the future' - hence the title of the memoir, 'Permanent Record'.
Naturally, these revelations performed a furore. The United States revoked his passport midair, while he was enroute to Ecuador, where he was offered asylum. He has been in forced exile in Russia since he landed in the airport, in June 2013.
In the memoir, though, Snowden details how he became interested in programming, how he became a defense contractor working for various intelligence agencies, and why he actually became a whistelblower. Even putting aside the unsettling nature of the disclosures, this is a riveting read on its own, as Snowden details his own life in vivid detail, and how his experiences shaped him. A must read if you're curious about cybersecurity, privacy, or just in the mood of rich memoirs. ( )
  SidKhanooja | Sep 1, 2023 |
I felt some nostalgia at the beginning of the book with discussion of the emergence of personal computers and the Internet of the 1990s.

I found it to be a very engaging story about Edward's life, the emotions and moral dilemnas he confronted, and the Intelligence Community (IC).

I was surprised to read that so much of the IC in the US is outsourced to organisations or contractors.

I was aware that there was and is a significant amount of surveillance capability, but it was interesting to have some of it confirmed and hear about the extent of this capability and importance of metadata over content.

The challenges of releasing the information and being credible whilst maintaining anonymity was an interesting read.

Reading about the power of XKEYSTORE to search nearly everything a user does in the Internet was mind-blowing; thoughts of Big Brother in George Oswell's 1984 came to mind.

I am amazed by Edward's courage to speak up despite knowing that there would be significant consequences to his life. ( )
  gianouts | Jul 5, 2023 |
Engaging story. Can't believe someone being so brave as to stand against the injustices and bullying of the most militarily powerful country in the world. ( )
  paarth7 | May 6, 2023 |
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Snowden liefert einzigartige Einsichten in das Innenleben amerikanischer Geheimdienste: ein Psychogramm der Mitarbeiter/innen und eine Analyse der Strukturen. Beides verbindet der 36-Jährige mit seiner eigenen ungewöhnlichen Geschichte. […] Edward Snowden ist ein Vorbild dafür, was es heißt, sich für Rechtsstaatlichkeit und die eigenen Werte zu engagieren.
 
In the aftermath of 9/11, he joined the US army because he "wanted to show I wasn't just a brain in a jar", and had he not suffered stress fractures during training, he would have become a special forces soldier. Snowden says his greatest regret was his own "reflexive, unquestioning support" for the decision to wage war after the attacks, and how it led to "the promulgation of secret policies, secret laws, secret courts and secret wars". He found out about this parallel world working for different intelligence agencies as a contractor tasked with upgrading their antediluvian IT systems. As the spies pivoted towards cyber espionage, the top brass missed something quite important: "The CIA didn't quite understand. The computer guy knows everything, or rather can know everything." Snowden, it seems, was in a position to access their crown jewels.

[...] He eventually decided his loyalties lay not with the agencies he was working for, but the public they were set up to protect. He felt ordinary citizens were being betrayed, and he had a duty to explain how.
tillagd av Cynfelyn | ändraThe Guardian, Nick Hopkins (Sep 14, 2019)
 

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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online??a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

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